crack : Idioms & Phrases

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crack addict

  • noun someone addicted to crack cocaine
    binger.
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crack cocaine

  • noun a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
    tornado; crack.
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crack down

  • verb repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable)
    clamp down.
    • The police clamped down on illegal drugs
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crack of doom

  • noun (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
    Day of Judgment; Day of Judgement; Judgment Day; Last Judgment; Judgement Day; doomsday; eschaton; day of reckoning; end of the world; Last Day; Last Judgement.
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crack shot

  • noun someone skilled in shooting
    sharpshooter; marksman.
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crack up

  • verb suffer a nervous breakdown
    crock up; break up; collapse; crack.
  • verb rhapsodize about
  • verb laugh unrestrainedly
    break up.
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crack willow

  • noun large willow tree with stiff branches that are easily broken
    Salix fragilis; snap willow; brittle willow.
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crack-brained

Crack"-brained` adjective
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  1. Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
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crack-up

  • noun a mental or physical breakdown
    breakdown.
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cracked wheat

  • noun grains of wheat that have been crushed into small pieces
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cracked-wheat bread

  • noun bread made with cracked wheat that has been ground fine
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fatigue crack

  • noun a crack in metal resulting from metal fatigue
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get cracking

  • verb start to be active
    get started; get rolling; get going; get moving; get weaving; bestir oneself.
    • Get cracking, please!
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half-cracked

Half"-cracked` adjective
Definitions
  1. Half-demented; half-witted. Colloq.
Webster 1913

quarter crack

  • noun a crack on the inside of a horse's forefoot
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Sand crack

  • noun a fissure in the wall of a horse's hoof often causing lameness
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  • (Far.), a crack extending downward from the coronet, in the wall of a horse's hoof, which often causes lameness.
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To crack a bottle

  • to open the bottle and drink its contents.
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To crack a crib

  • to commit burglary. Slang
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To crack on

  • to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more steam. Colloq.
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toe crack

  • noun a crack on the forepart of a horse's hindfoot
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